The CGIAR at 31 ; An Independent Meta-Evaluation of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

from the Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Overview: CGIAR's Changing Mission and Authorizing Environment; CGIAR Activities and Impacts. What Do We Know?; New Challenges for the CGIAR. How Is It Responding?; Restructuring the CGIAR. Lessons of Past Attempts; The Current CGIAR Reforms. Some Are Creditable But Others Need Revisiting; The Critical Roles of the World Bank. Convener, Donor, and Development Partner; Recommendations; Technical Report: The Context: The Context for the CGIAR Meta-Evaluation; The Development Effectiveness of the CGIAR: High Returns to Germplasm Research; Genetic Resources Strategy and Management; Policy Research in the CGIAR; Natural Resources Management Research in the CGIAR; National Agricultural Research Systems and the CGIAR; The CGIAR and Sub-Saharan Africa; The Organizational Effectiveness of the CGIAR: Past Attempts to Restructure the CGIAR; Reform in the CGIAR (2000-Present); The World Bank and the CGIAR; Conclusions; Appendixes;